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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cn69m727t| Title: | Policing for profit: The abuse of civil asset forfeiture, 3rd edition |
| Contributors: | Knepper, Lisa McDonald, Jennifer Sanchez, Kathy Pohl, Elyse Smith |
| Keywords: | Forfeiture—United States Searches and seizures—United States Unjust enrichment Police corruption—United States Police-community relations—United States Discrimination in law enforcement—United States |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2020 |
| Publisher: | Institute for Justice |
| Place of Publication: | Arlington, Va. |
| Description: | Most states and the federal government have laws allowing police and prosecutors to seize and permanently keep Americans’ cash, cars, homes and other property suspected of being involved in a crime—without regard to the owners’ guilt or innocence. This is civil forfeiture, and it is rampant nationwide, with local, state and federal agencies using it to collectively forfeit billions of dollars each year. Many of these billions go directly to law enforcement, including the same police and prosecutors who seize and forfeit property. This third edition of Policing for Profit presents the largest collection of state and federal forfeiture data yet assembled and provides updated grades of state and federal civil forfeiture laws. Key findings include: - Many jurisdictions fail to provide a full accounting of forfeiture activity, so any estimate of forfeiture’s scope will undercount. Still, by any measure, forfeiture activity is extensive nationwide, sending billions of dollars to government coffers; - State and federal laws make forfeiture easy and profitable for law enforcement; - New research shows eliminating civil forfeiture does not decrease crime; - Federal equitable sharing creates a giant loophole; - Forfeiture isn’t targeting kingpins and ordinary people can’t fight back |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cn69m727t |
| Related resource: | https://ij.org/wp-content/themes/ijorg/images/pfp3/policing-for-profit-3-web.pdf |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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